The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-22
A CONVENTION CALLED.
The Executive Committee Issues a Call
for Primaries and Convention.

The Executive Committee Issues a Call
for Primaries n Convention.
II matters not how cold the weather gets,
politics in this city will be boiling hot for
the next two weeks to come. Everybody is
taking a hand, and the cry is 'le, the war 20
on So cntangled has the situation become
that the city members Of the executive com.
mittec concluded that II was time that they
issued a manifesto to the Democracy and hid
them 10 HE TO their tents. The hour fixed
Tor the committee TO meet was s O'Clock last
night, at Squire Powels Office on
Adams street, but as several Of the
members had q mission 10 perform
Mt the mass meeting GU then In session at the
courthouse, a quorum could not be obtained
until after that meeting adjourned. Other
member were slow about coming TO time,
and had to be sent for. Ii was not until
near o O'Clock when the meeting was called
20 Order 10y Chairman s. ]. Camp, with the
following lnembers present Nick MalatcSta,
Mike Garvin, William Quinn, Tony Walsh
and Simon Lehman.
The question, and the only one 10 be dis
cusscd, was whether the committee had the
right, or should call a convention 10 nomi.
nate candidates for the coming election for
Office in the Taxing District. A majority Of
the committee were Of the opinion that they
not only had the right 10 order a convention,
hut II was their boundcn duty to do so, in
view Of the state Of affairs which confronted
the Democrats Of the city.
Mcs,rs. Walsh and Quinn, who had been
among the chief manipulators of the cut and
dried affair at the court-hOuse, strcnu-
ously opposed the plan, on the ground
That the committee had no right 10
call a convention; that the mass meeting
which had Just adjourned had spoken, and
that Il was the true authority on the subject.
and further, that the nominations il had
made were the proper Ones for the people 10
vote for. The discussion was spirited and
bitter for awhile, especially on the part Of
Quinn and Walsh, who 90 the end main
tanned that the committee was going outside
NJ Us Jurisdiction In attempting to undo
what the people 90 In a body had just done.
However, the motion was put and carried.
and after the following call had been pre-
pared the committee adjourned:
Realizing the Importance Of united action on
the part ui the Democrats 1T Memphis. We, the
IenScratic executive committee, a. The only ".
gMiitcd Democratic body In said county. call npOn
all menbcn OF. the party 10 meet Ia the various
Mnris ON Tuesday evening, December q, between
Band Q O'Clock, 10 elect delegates to % DcmOcr tic
convention, 10 be held ~ a place to h. hereafter
iaincd, Thursday, December -, at 10 o'clock a. m,
f0r the purpose 81 nominating one hfc aud pnlico
commissioner. two commissioners Of public works
aud two school commissioners.
The number Of DELEGATES 20 which each wnul Is
cnltlcd, aud the place Of holding said primaries,
ain b. ~ follows.
fir,t ward-iorncr Main aud Jackson streets, ?,
dc Cgatrs.
Serond ward-Court house, i6 delegates.
Third Narl-No. - Adams street, 20 delegates
FOURTH Nard-No.8 $50 Second sirrrt % delegates.
y Naut-Benle street. between fernando and
1eSntn. 7 delegates.
sixth Ward-Main street, near Linden. % dele.
yates.
ruth ward-orlcans and Jesamine streets. 7
delegates.
Eighth Ward y rs Poplar street n Delegates.
Ninth N~afd-Grecnlaw and fiith strccts. fdeie.
gates.
Tenth wsri-Main and Calhoun streets. s dele.
epios.
ny onier Of the Democrats Executive Committee.
4. J. CAM Chairman.
NJ q. GAEvts. Acting Secretary.